VOICES OF HISTORY PRESENTS - Mike Hotz, Huey Pilot Vietnam, 116th Assault Helicopter Company 1968
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Thank you for your service Mike, and thank you for sharing your story with us.
Another fine Vietnam vet. Thank you Mike Hotz for your service, from the bottom of my heart. God bless you and yours sir.
I arrived at the 116th March 1970 as their Maintenance Test Pilot. I recall the swimming pool. Thank you Mike! The nurses from the evacuation hospital really liked the pool, and we liked having them visit! I flew with the guns (Stingers) and also with the slicks when I wasn't doing test flights. Great interview!
Please continue getting stories. The Heli pilots are incredible and save many lives.
Yes, hopefully more stories are on their way.
Thank you Sir for your service and welcome home God bless you.
Thank you sir for your service in Vietnam. I feel appreciative of you for serving our country.
God bless you Mike Holtz and thank YOU for your service!
Mike , thank you so much for your service & attitude your another true hero don't ever forget it . ❤ xoxo
Thank you, Larry, for making this video available to everyone. I support your work. Love you brother 🙏❤️✝️🇺🇸
Your fellow Americans are proud of the job you did Mike. Thank You for securing our freedom and for the sacrifices you have made for me and mine.
Mike thank you for your service. God Bless!
THANKS MIKE
Thank you for your service 🇺🇸🦅
everynight i listen to these. im a young kid who really values history and Vietnam is something that isnt talked about enough.
God bless you. Share these stories and my radio station app with your friends. They need to learn this history from the Veterans themselves. They are not learning it in school.
Incredible story Mike, thank you for your service and sacrifice sir and God bless you and your family.
Thankyou for trying to help America be what it is supposed ro be. Honor exemplified
He don't think it's so. This is a brave Man.
Thank you for your service and sacrifices God Bless you , America and your family. Thank you Larry this was a great interview 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Thank you Mike. Thank you Larry
Amazing story by a hero. Much love, honor & respect .
Thank you, sir, Welcome Home!
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Thanks for sharing and service best wishes to you and your family
Doctors get paid a certain amount and then you see football coaches get paid way more. Same with soldiers who risk life and limb, then they get home and are just nor appreciated nearly enough.
Thank you for your service and thank you for sharing.
Thank you Manfred.
Thank you for your service.
I'm addicted to watching these. This generation should be cherished, regardless on your thoughts of the morality of the Vietnam war. Truly a different breed.
Me too, and I am the producer. God bless you!!
It always makes me step back in disbelief how veterans like Mike can provide such eloquent and concise answers to some very complex questions! The reason is that they are telling the straightforward truth - take it or leave it. They were there and did what many cannot or would not do. I pray for all those who have been in or are in the service. Thank you! Mike’s interview was amazing! Thank you to Larry for this amazing work. ❤️
Many thanks Bob for your kind words.
Great story. Love our Vietnam Vets. USA!
Wow, our HEROE!
The teens need to watch this. And the part do the best we could do our job
Thank you mike welcome home your story was great I hope you are doing well, thank you Larry for another great interview
Thank you Jimmy!!
Mike in 'Guns' your call sign was 'Stinger XX'...lol From us 'Rats', 187th AHC 40 klicks north of you.
Much Respect in Brotherhood,
Bob 'Frenchy' G.
'Slicks and Guns' 66-68
Welcome home Mike looks like we chewed some of the same laterite, I was in the 362nd Engr. Co. Le in TAY Nigh Jan. 1967 until Apr.29. 1969. Our co. was in cu chi in 67 but I was send on to Black virgin mountain , so only spent one night in Cu Chi , was was al around cu Chi on different operations. Helped cut down the Hobo woods and the boi loi woods.
Thank you for your service sir and welcome home.
What a great man, and great interview. Thank You!
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Great video. My Uncle was a copter pilot with the 116th starting in May of 1968. Loved hearing the stories.
Thank you for saving lives, and God bless.
Blessing Olivia. I hope you are subscribed to my channel. Just released another one of my WWII D-Day heroes, Curtis Hansen.
@@VoicesofHistory Just subscribed. Without history, there will be nothing to teach us about our future. Keep up the good work. My brother was killed in combat there, and my uncle worked for the CIA spying operative program, parachuted up north and was captured and tortured. He was incarcerated at a hardcore concentration camp for over 15+ years near Hanoi, before escaping and defected here, living down south and still reliving the nightmares randomly. Those poor souls.
Olivia, I am very sorry to hear about your brother. God rest his soul. Have you listened to my radio station yet?
These guys were heroes!
Thank You Sir for Your Service to Our Great Nation. You will ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED! 🤗🤗👏👍🥇🌹🇺🇸🫡🙏
Thank You for your service SIR!
Excellent interview. Thank you Mike & Larry🇺🇸
Blessings Sheila!!!
You aeE MEN , THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE
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You get called...you go...right or wrong. It's nice to be free... and our debt is immense.
Thank you Larry for allowing me to sponsor Mike's story. Freedom is not free and these stories need to be told! Please take a minute to sponsor one of Larry's stories and lets honor our veterans! God Bless you Larry!
Todd, I am thrilled to have you aboard. Mike's video is taking off. He is now becoming a part of history thanks to you and this channel. God bless you!!
I’m just a dumb 45 year old construction worker from stlouis but I have the most highest respect for any veteran thank you and god bless all of are vets
God bless you Robert. You are loved!!!
Ty for telling your story. My uncle told me a few stories about his time in ww2. I wish he told me more before he died. In fact he told me 3 stories just before he died. Ty for doing this.
Thank you for your story. My brothers served in nam, one was a chopper mechanic. Served during Tet, keep the birds flying. No rest the first week. They served because their country was at war so that's what you do as an American man. Carry over of the pride in WW 2 American fighters. I do thank you for your service to our country.
Salute!
Another great episode.
Thanks James!!
he were good looking and looking so naive and innocent in that young photo. such a terrible chapter of history that completely wipe the innocent smile off his face and left only terror , agony.
Thank you for your service
Thank you, shared.
Blessings my friend!!
Thank you Mike and Larry
Thank you Kenneth. I appreciate your comment.
Thank you Mike for your service...
I live on Fort Wolther, Mineral Wells, Texas...
Control tower location above the primary training area is where I live... American, Texas and Army/Marine flags fly over the Tower and Fort Wolther...
It was men and women like yourself that went into action, so that the next generation, like myself, would not have to.
Thank you for your service. You had to grow up in a hurry. Amazing story 🇺🇸
I was hoping for an explanation of Co-Chee-Coo? God job thank you, these are very good, your recording our Vietnam History for people all over the world. It's a bit in coming. Can you try and incorporate a better understanding of so many of these veterans not making it into their 80's? Thank you chopper commander- God Bless You and Yours, and all of us.
Cu Chi was famous for a whole underground city with miles of tunnels. Right under the feet of the Americans. The enemy would pop up and disappear out of nowhere and we couldn’t figure out why. It was not revealed til after the war the extents of the tunnels til after the war. Some tunnels were found during the war, but we had no idea about the network. They even had hospitals down there. Check out the book Tunnels of Cu Chi.
love it
No one will ever tell me that these 18 year old “boys” weren’t MEN flying these expensive aircraft transporting precious cargo into a highly charged combat situation. Everyone who served has my profound respect and thanks for their brave service. Mike, I’m happy you returned home safely and have enjoyed life. You deserve the very best.
A hero !
Thank you Douglas. God bless you!!
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Tracheotomy probably saved his life...40 pieces of fragments...just lucky. God bless him.
Great interview this Seabee In joyed
Yes sir!!
seeing most of these interviews were done,prior 2010,i would be interested in how views have changed.
Hey mate I really love your videos extremely well done
Where can I find that film Vietnam remembered?
Ben here is the link to my film. God bless you!! Vietnam Remembered: ua-cam.com/video/_HkDtCBdNUs/v-deo.html
I read somewhere or watched a documentary that said the average ww2 vets as a whole had seen approximately 10 days of combat… Whereas the average Vietnam vets seen around 30 days combat. This included small skirmishes n bases getting mortared/shelled. The mental effects of ww2 might have seemed less for that wars vets because of the amount of actual time spent in combat was 2/3 less than that of Vietnam vets… There were exceptions of guys who seen way more or less combat, but most guys in ww2 were wounded after a day or 2 of actual combat, many would have to heal up, be sent back to the line n get wounded again after another couple days of combat which kept their average so much lower. Most of the time, if a ww2 vet was wounded a second or third time, it’d be more serious n they were sent home. Vietnam vets would many times spend 2 weeks to even a month in the jungle taking sniper shots n running into small patrols a lot more. And not as many would get wounded at once on average either.
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19 yo lieutenant. Wow.
The Huey has such a distinctive sound
Who is I WRITE BOOKS? Thank you for watching my stories. Please watch my Vietnam Remembered film. The opening sequences features the Huey blade sound. God bless you!!
@@VoicesofHistory I was in the 82nd Airborne. Since I'm creative I began publishing. I have one book out from last year and another publishing this month. I've wrote eight manuscripts now as a hobby. You can see who I am on Amazon. This book actually has a Vietnam mission in it set during Vietnam "A pine holding the sun"
Please send me a link. What is your name on Amazon?
@@VoicesofHistory E.A. Gunnison. Eric A
Your book looks GREAT Eric!!!
I enlisted rt after Vietnam ended it was not a popular time to enlist.
Same here....77
We know what this guy looks like, and you might have more pictures of Vietnam. Best of luck!
it is a shame that these Heroes have to pass on.. they should live in castles for ever n ever
Well said. I like that. Thank you for watching my interview with Mike Hotz.
A good man
This honorable veteran served his country by visiting hell while he served.
Well said!!
Find A Nam Huey driver.His name is Chester Holland.I knew him as The Pilot of my Huey.I was in her In Panama in 86.He was a CWO-4 at that point.We had a master caution at nite over water,And he found the only Island to put us on.
43:31 I don't think it was weed..I believe coke..heroin..alcohol were available in Vietnam...it's not talked about...but it was a thing....
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